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You should invest in a donkey. Seriously. The neighborhood teenagers used to jump in our pasture and chase our horses around, and no matter how many times I called the cops it never got better (mind, this is in Texas, where I'm legally within my right to shoot somebody over that). We adopted a rescue donkey. Problem solved. Donkeys don't know fear, and their bullshit tolerance threshold is essentially zero. The first time the kids tried to hassle him, it was like somebody took the concept of righteous anger and gave it stubby little legs and big ears.

***SECOND EDIT: Someone posted a fake update saying one of the children was brain damaged; this is NOT TRUE, read the actual story down below

EDIT: Sorry, guys, I've been in clinics for goddamn ever or I would have answered sooner. So I had previously installed floodlights over the pasture (not motion-sensitive or they would forever be going off, but they were all controlled by one master switch that we placed on the back porch). The first few nights I kept the donkey in a stall because he still had open wounds that we were treating that were a result of the wastes of oxygen the rescue confiscated him from. Once those started scabbing over, I put him out with the horses, which, on a side note, resulted in him immediately attempting to mount every horse out there repeatedly, including the geldings, even though he was too short to achieve coitus(we gelded him soon after, which was done more for medical reasons than anything. I would have let him breed at least once if I had my preference, mules are awesome). The first few nights all was quiet. About 2 weeks after we added him to the herd, I was washing dishes at the sink and heard him make a noise that was unmistakably intended to signal his upgrade to Donkey Defcon 1. I yelled for my other roommate to get the phone and wait for me to tell her to call the sheriff's deputies, grabbed my shotgun (NOT to shoot the children, just so I would have it if something else was going on), and walked outside and hit the floodlights. The horses were huddled together in a nervous little group at one end of the pasture and a giant cloud of dust around them implied they had been running moments before. 7 or 8 of the teenage boys were in the process of climbing the fence. The remaining one in the pasture was shouting at them to stop being "faggots" (because Texas). The donkey was between the kid and the horses and had his ears pinned flat against his head and his teeth bared. His nostrils were flaring and his little brush tail was twitching forcefully. While I watched, he abruptly snaked his head forward until he was basically a horizontal missile of hate, and launched himself at the kid. Now, this is where the kid made his true mistake. We live in the country, and most of us are accustomed to handling stock like horses and cows. Most cows and some stallions will mock-charge if they are especially agitated. If you run from them, they will chase you, but if you stand your ground and wave your arms at them and shout, they will back off because they are bluffing.

The donkey was not bluffing. The kid did everything right, and even took a step towards the donkey to show his dominance. The donkey was unimpressed. He hit the kid full force, dropping his head at the last second so his forehead slammed into the kid's chest. The kid went head over heels, and here's where it got a little concerning: the donkey did not stop. He didn't run over or by him, he slowed down and lowered his head and continued to shove the kid along the ground for about 10 feet, snapping at him, until the kid was able to get his feet under him and roll. The donkey continued aggressive pursuit as the kid flailed and scrambled, trying to stand up enough to run. He finally managed it, and ran in a stumbling shamble for the fence as the donkey continued to snap and him and shove him from about 2 feet behind. The other kids one the fence started shouting and waving their arms and throwing small rocks as the pair approached the fence, and the donkey paused at this, not in a fearful way, but in the way that a professional pauses to consider how a change in circumstance affects his strategy. The kid made the fence and scrambled up, went over, and kept running.

At this point, I started shouting from the porch that the cops were on their way and you kids better get off my goddamn property. The kids heard this and scattered. The donkey heard this and made his greeting noise, which is an upsetting noise like someone is running a metal file repeatedly over a band saw. In its immediate aftermath, I distinctly heard "oh fuck, did she LET IT OUT???!!!"

The donkey's face was covered in blood because he had opened up his scabs when he slammed into the kid's back. I will reiterate: he knowingly used his injured face as a battering ram and viewed this as a completely reasonable tactical decision, because donkeys are the form Viking warriors take when they are thrown out of Valhalla for being too rowdy. I waited about 20 minutes for him to calm down, during which we called the sheriff's department. They responded promptly, which in our area means it took them another 15 minutes, during which time I took pictures of the donkey's face and then cleaned him up, scratched his itchy spots, gave him his favorite treat, peanut butter on green apple slices, and then immediately regretted it when he wiped his muzzle on the front of my shirt.

The deputies came, looked at the donkey from the other side of the fence, and laughed hysterically. I know most of them from work (I'm a paramedic), so they were even more motivated than usual to get this resolved. They took their own pictures of the pasture, no trespassing signs, floodlights, donkey, and stock. They then drove out to the houses of the 3 or 4 kids I knew had been involved to chat with their parents. After that was done, I called their parents (it was about 1am at this point) and pointed out that A) many people would have shot their children over something like this, B) I was officially out of patience with the situation, and C) I would recommend that they explain to the kids, very seriously, that I was extremely fond of this donkey, and any attempts at retaliation towards him, or anything that looked like retaliation, or if the donkey acquired any sort of health issue up to and including a cold, and I would come knocking on their doors with cops and animal cruelty charges, and because the law is on my side, and I regularly go fishing with the Justice of the Peace for our county, I would win the case.

We have not had a problem since. The donkey has made a full recovery, and I am trying to train him to shake. My roommate claims I am doing this so that he can lull trespassers into a false sense of security and lure them closer. I have no comment.

Unfortunately one of the kids got his head knocked a bit too hard when he approached the donkey. We found him on the ground the next day. Almost dead. I haven't heard anything of him since but I believe he received severe brain damage.

When I was a kid I had a donkey. Those fuckers a deadly. We also had a couple cows and a steer, and sometimes the steer would fuck with the donkey, he'd just turn around and kick it right in the goddamn head. It was like a ninja with how accurate he'd be. And if the steer didn't stop he'd just do it again and again.

The incident is the second time in two weeks that a horse in Crawford County has been harmed by someone.

During the weekend of Aug. 25 and 26 someone doused Northstar, a 6-year-old horse owned by Jessie Woodworth of Centerville, with a flammable liquid and then set it on fire in an Athens Township pasture. Though burnt or singed on most of its body, Northstar has survived and continues to slowly recover.

And this is why animal cruelty should have much stricter punishments. Set a horse on fire? Here's a slap on the wrist and a couple months of community service.

There were kids in my town who stole a dog from someone's yard, tied it to their truck, and dragged it around. The dog didn't die until the owners found it mangled in their yard the next day and took it to the vet to be euthanized. The fucking kids were underaged and were given no long term punishment.

Seriously, nip this in the fucking bud. This is sociopath behavior, that is all. Anyone that can do this deserves to be locked up the same way a person who tortures people is.

I guess I'll go against the grain here and say what they need is rehabilitation and psychiatric help, not long-term incarceration. Unless you plan on executing them or putting the kids in jail for life you will have to release them, and when you do, instead of being rehabilitated they will essentially have graduated from prison with a masters degree in psychopathy.

I read the article and it seems that fire-setting and bed-wetting have almost nothing to do with being a sociopath and animal cruelty might have something to do with it.

Paraphrased from the article:

Fire-setting may be a the first step to releasing aggression, but in many cases is merely be antisocial behavior.

Bedwetting and sociopathic behavior have almost nothing to do with one another and is now seen as a destructive myth. It's not even clear that it's associated with any sort of childhood distress.

Animal cruelty seems to be more of an indicator of child abuse (ie the child is being abused and in return abuses an animal). It's a way for the child to exert some control over their own lives by showing that they are stronger than the weaker animal that they are hurting. However, 56% of the 45 male violent offenders that they interviewed said they abused animals during their childhood.

What I did seem to gather from the article is that child abuse or childhood trauma may be the biggest indicator that someone may be prone to homicide, and that the myth of triad of sociopathy is an urban legend and almost completely discredited.

Ohhhhh wow. I consider myself an exceedingly rational person, but holy fuck if I wouldn't hunt that person down and physically harm them in any way possible.

I mean.. just.. fucking.. fuck. Fuck.

Also, I realize that human cruelty bothers me significantly less than animal cruelty (as in, cruelty inflicted upon humans or animals). This may not be reasonable in any way, but I can't help feeling like this animal either trusted you or had no way to get away from you, so you, as a 'higher being', decided to set it on fire?

A few years back one of the communities in my county had problems with teenagers using horses for target practice with handguns. One of the horses had to be put down because of it, but the other one survived. The kids were caught and punished, luckily.

You may catch shit for your comment, and I don't even own a gun, but I agree with you. Anyone who would inflict pain on an animal just for fun is probably a socoipath, and what they do to animals is just the tip of the iceberg as to what they'll likely end up doing to people. I would not cry one tear for any one of such people to be removed from the gene pool before they end up beating a spouse or their kids.

Me and my buddy used horses for target practice with our soft air guns, which didn't actually hurt the horses but it scared them a bit. We laughed and thought it was funny back then (we were 11). Today (28 y/o) I'm sick to my stomache for what we did and I wish I could go back and slap my younger self.

I'm not trying to excuse my behaviour but we didn't do it "out of evil". Fucked up values/morals I guess.

They look like wild horses to me (or at least semi-wild) AND it approached the guy with ears laid back - first warning and he should have backed off. Do not go near any animal you don't know the behavior of, even more animals out in the wild with no fences. That horse was defensing the flock. Doesn't look like the stallion, but could be the leading mare.

no. those were the horses of villagers living in the valley, brought up there for grazing. there are wild horses around those parts (actually farther south-west, maybe 100km away), but these were not.﻿

When we did horse shows my family knew this arrogant trainer/rider. He had recently bought this mare and wanted to show everybody how much they had bonded so he decided to kiss it. She bit his face and he had to have a lot of reconstructive surgery.

I once woke up to the sound of foreign laughter on my ranch so naturally I get up, wake up my friend who is spending the night and my uncle who is the "ranch manager", we all grab rifles as per tradition for an intusion and sneak over to the pasture to find a bunch of drunk gang members from a nearby rival high school spray painting their symbol onto our 5 horse then throwing empty beer cans at them. Enraged we took position on a nearby hill. My uncle had a high powered rifle with a scope, so he shot a warning shot that literally landed feet from one of the kids. They group freezes in feer and then we turn around the opposite direction and all start firing to create a bunch of noise. I've never seen kids with saggy pants run so fast before! Needless to say, they never came back. The horses had been cut up by the glass bottles they had thrown and the paint took weeks to come off. If I had known the severity of their damage then I'd have probably killed them

This is jazz-rock (not to be confused with jazz fusion). Blood Sweat and Tears, Ides of March, Chicago are some examples. Other things that come to mind are is Zappa - Hot Rats and War. There was a bunch of this stuff in the early 70's. The only reason I know about it is from High School pep band.

I once got spray paint all over my hands and it took several days and an entire mini bottle of nail polish remover to get it all off, I can't even imagine the pain the horse would go through from all the damn scrubbing :( I'm sure the person washing him was very gentle but spray paint is so hard to get off anything.

Good thing horse-hair grows 4-8 inches a year. Unless it's a show-animal, the paint isn't really going to hurt it. The fumes may have been unpleasant during the act itself, but it's unlikely the paint even got on the horse's skin. Wait a month and it'll go away on it's own. In the mean-time it has a pretty design...

My family had horses up until about 8 years ago. I grew up around them and loved them. They were racing horses, but still horses. We took our horse to a boarding farm one night around sunset. This was around 10-12 years ago. When we arrived, no one could be found so we walked our horse to a stall and began looking around for the farm owners. I will never forget what we found. Many of their horses had been shot by high powered rifles of a larger caliber, probably of the AK variant, and several had already died. We walked in to a horse on the ground bleeding profusely and several other wounded. I know this situation sucks OP, but things can be so much worse. Give them a good haircut, treat them right, and give them some sugar cubes.

Fuck everything about this. Reading this made me want to find the fuckers who would do such a thing and I'm not going to write what I think should happen to them because I would probably get put on some watch list.

That same thing happened about a week before the painting of this horse in the same general area. I'm assuming the people who vandalized this horse go their ideas from the people who set the horse on fire.

I don't get why someone would even do that, let alone why some people need an explanation as to why not to do something like this. It's an animal, would you do this to a child, something that is innocent and doesn't have an understanding of what would be happening? No. Why don't people respect animals? :(

Living in a town here racing is huge and stables are EVERYWHERE, I know a few "horse-people" (People that own horses, not Centaurs)... Their community is full of bitchiness and backstabbing. I wouldn't be surprised if this was one cunt trying to get at another person rather than a random act. Similar to keying a car or something... except this includes a living, breathing creature.

As an equestrian I think I can safely say that NO ONE would EVER do this to another persons animal in the equestrian community. Shit gets competitive, and yeah, there's a lot of rumors floating around sometimes, but the animals ALWAYS come first, they are our love, we couldn't do anything without them. We wouldn't even begin to think to hurt them or put their riders in danger.

I am surprised to hear you say that riders are uppity and pretentious, honestly I feel this is a big misconception.

I've never seen any major degree of bitchiness or uppitiness than would be expected in the general population, that's just a stereotype (mainly used by shows like Saddle Club and Heartland against rich riders, even in this group it holds untrue however), the large majority of the people at my stable sacrifice everything for their sport (I'm talking $30k horse and $8k car, 40 hour workweeks, and 20+ hours a week at the stables, not even kidding, I've seen it all.). A lot of people think you have to be rich to own a horse but really virtually every income can make it happen if they are devoted enough and willing to have absolutely no extra cash. Even as a Dressage rider, the most uppity of all the horse sports, shit like this would never go down.

(additional evidence, that horse looks more like a cowhorse or pleasure riding horse than a competition horse, it was probably some punk ass kids who snuck through the barbedwire and were just dicks, Im surprised they didnt do the cow behind him too, but the grey horse was probably easier to see in the dark)

Rider here. I can confirm that we are not all like that. There are a number of us that have manners and act civilly. We mostly keep to ourselves.

I have, however, had a stranger climb over our electric fence and try to ride my horse while he was grazing in the field. He only got as far as getting on him. He had no supervision, no tack, no permission, no obvious experience ... nothing. I don't know what compelled him too, but thankfully neither him nor the horse were hurt.

I'm kind of skeptical, I've done a lot of farming in the past and you write on animals with special made livestock markers. They are kind of like a big grease pencil and fade away after a few days. The thing is they are made in bright florescent colors usually. Yellow, green, pink, orange, and red are the most common. I think this horse has been drawn on with that, it makes sense, they are on a farm commonly, and the the colors on this horse are the most common colors of livestock markers.

I don't know if anyone at all has told you this, most likely you have talked to your vet about it already, but I would suggest olive oil. Wash the hide with horse shampoo, work in the oil, wash with shampoo. Repeat this tedious process until it is out. That is how I usually get it out of my own hair and it works, but verify with your vet that it is safe, try not to shave the hide if you can.
Edit: Forgot about the combing process after you have applied the olive oil.

I was thinking something similar, I doubt the horse cares very much. This is definitely a dick thing to do and vandalism but I don't think that horse was tortured or abused, it just wasn't respected. I'm not saying it is okay, but I wouldn't group the assholes that did this in with the assholes that fight dogs or kick cats or something.

It can act as a pretty rotten irritant, and there are a lot of animals whose skin can't hack the same chemicals ours can. Not to mention that the actual event had to be pretty damn stressful, because there's no way you're going to get a horse to sit still for this without finding a way to tie it down. Chances are it won't kill it, but it certainly isn't good for it.

There are lots of safe ways to dye a horse (crayola markers are one I've used before), but spraypaint can leave the horse bald in that area. I've been to horse auctions where the horses were sprayed to mark them like this- the horse is ultimately fine but will lose a little hair where it was spraypainted.